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Oresteia
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Aeschylus , Translated by Christopher Collard


Agamemnon *Libation Bearers *Eumenides

Aeschylus Oresteia is the only trilogy to survive from Greek tragedy, and the religious and moral ideas it enacts afterwards influenced a great dramatic genre, as well as giving its three plays their lasting significance. In this family history, Fate and the gods decree that each generation will repeat the crimes and endure the suffering of their forebears. When Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, their son Orestes must avenge his fathers death. Only Orestes appeal to
the goddess Athena saves him from his mothers Furies, breaking the bloody chain; together gods and humans inaugurate a way of just conduct that will ensure stable families and a strong community.

The Oresteia is majestic as theatre and as literature, and this new translation seeks to preserve both these qualities. The introduction and notes emphasize the interconnection of scenes, ideas, and language that distinguishes this unique work.
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Product details

Format Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions 129 x 196 x 19mm | 235g
Publication date 15 Jan 2009
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Annotated
Illustrations note 1 map
ISBN10 019953781X
ISBN13 9780199537815
Bestsellers rank 68,975